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AT THE DR. TALMI)Fj MONS Oh- -. , f. C .1UGS,. i pri -ABERNA The MitiyYOLOGYAN0 OTHER NAT 1 t,14L HISTORY OF THE BIBLE. i tor. Talnage Oives An Account of His b a liBreakfast by the Sea of Galilee and 1De Vt J1, 110 duces Many Lessons From the Mention Oll. of Fish In the Bible. BROOKLYN, Feb. 5.-Rev. T. Do. Witt Talmage this mornini preached to a great audience in the Tabernacle a remarkably interesting and eloquent sermon on "The Ichthyology of the Bi ble; or, God Among the Fishes," being a continuation of his series of discourses on G -d everywhere. '.1 ne text chosen was Genesis i, 20, "And God said, Let the wateis bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life." What a new book the Bible is! Af ter 36 years' preaching from it and dis cussing over 3,000 diilerent subjects founded on the word of God the 1)ok is as fresh to me as when I learned, with a attetch of infantile memory, the shoi t eat verse in the Bible, "Jesus wept," and 1 opened a few weeks ago a new realm of Biblical interest that neither my pulpit nor any one else's had ever explored, and having spoken to you in this course of sermons on God every where concerning the "Astronomy of the Bible; or, God Among the Stars;" the "Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries;" the "Oritn4hol ogy of the Bio'e; or, God Among the Birds;'" the "Mineralogy of the Bible; or, God Among the Ainethysts," this morning, as I may be divinely helped, I will speak to you about the "Ichthy ology of the Bible; or, God Arnong Lhe Fishes. Our horses were lathered and tired out, and their fetlocks were red with the blood cut out by tbe rocks, and I could hardly get my f'eet out of the stir rups as on Saturday night we (Hismount ed on the beach of Lake Galilee. The rather liberal supply of food with which we had started from Jerusalem was well r-h exhauited, and the articles of de. remaining had, by oft repetition ti,ree times a (lay for three weeks, ceated to appetize. I never want to see a fig again, and (ates with me are all out of date. Fo: several days the Arab caterer, who could speak but half a dozen Eng hsh words. would answer our requests for so1e of tMe styles of food with which we had been delectated thie first few days by crying out, "Finished." The most piquant appetizer is abstinence, and the dewand of all the party was, "Let us breakfast on Sund!ay morninu on fresh fish from Lake Gennesareth," for you must knw that that lake h is four names, and it is worth a profusion of nomenclature, and it is in the Bible called Chinnereth, Tiberias, Gennesa reth and Galilee. To our extemporized table on Sab. bath mozning came broiled perch, only a few hoars betore lifted out of the sa cred wa ers. It was natural that our minds should revert to the only break fast that Christ ever pl_,pared, and it was on those very shores where we breakfasted. Christ haid in those olden times struck two flints together and set on fire some shavings or light brush wood and hen put on larger wood, and a p)ile of glowing bright coals was the consequence. Meanwh'le the disciples fishing oil tile lake had awfully ''poor luck," and every time thley drew up thie net it hung drip' ping withou..a fluttering tinl or squirming scale. But Christ from tile shore shIout ed to themi anld told iem where to dirop) the net, and I153 big lish rewarded thieml. Simon and N athniiel, having cleaned some of those lar.ec fish, b)roughlt them to tile coals wiiichl Christ haid kindled, and the group) who had been out all i'ght and were chill and wet and hunii gry sat down andl began mastication. All that scene came hack to us when on Sabbath morning, D1 ecemlber, I1889, just oui.aide the rumis of ancient TIib,erias and within sound1( of the rippling Galilee, we breakfasted. Now, is it not stranll.e that the Bible iagcry is 5s) inwrought from the fki eries when the I loly Land is, for the mtost, part, an inland regiony Only thnee lakes, twvo besides the one already mentioned-namely, the I )ead sea, where fi'4h cannot live at all, and as s on as they touch it th'ey (diC, and tin' birds swoop on their tIny carcasses, and the third, the P'ools of lIeshbon, whih are aliernately full all] dry. Only three rivers of the lloly Land, .Jabbok, Kishi on andi Jordan. About all the fish now in th'e wateLs of the IIoly Land cre the perch, I'he carp, the bream, the minnow, the blenny, the bar.el (so called be cause of the barb at its month), the chub, the dogfish, none of thlemi worth a Delaware shad or an Adirondack trout. Well, the worldi's geograp~hy has changed, and the world's bill of fare has chlangedi. Lake Galilee was larger and deeper and better stocked than now, and r'o doubt the rivers were deooper and. the fisheries were of far more im poAtance then than now. Besides that there was the Mediterranean sea only 35 miles away, and fish were salted or dried and brought~ inland, andi so muich of that article of food was sold1 in ,Jeru salem that a fish market gave the name to or~e of the gates o' Jerusalem near by, and it was called the fishi gate. Th:e cities had great reservoirs inl which the lls' were kept alive and bred. TIhe Foo' of Gibeon was a fishpiool. Isaiah r'sd Solom.on refe.r to fishpools. Lerge fis'h were kept, alive and tied fast by ropes to a stake in these reservoirs, a ling having been run through their gills, and that is the meaning of the Scripture passage which says', "Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn?" So Important was the fish that the god Dlagon, worshiped by the Philistines, was ir'ide hialf.alish1and'.half man,-ar(d that is the meaning of the Lord's ifliig nation when in I Samuel we read that this Dlagon, the fish god, stood beside the ark of the Lord, and D)agon was by invisible hands dashed to pieces because the Phlistines had dared to make the flata a god. That explains the Scripture passage, "The head of Dlagon and both the palms of his hands were cut ofr' upon the threshold; only the stump of Dlagon was left to him." Now, the stump of Dlagon was the fish part. The top part, which was the figure of a man, was dashed to pieces, and the Lord, by demolishing everything but the stump or fish part of the idol, practically said, "You may keep your fIsh, but know from the way J. have demolished the rt of the Idol that It Is nothing divine." - Tanyard and Wilkinson found the fish an objet ofidolatry all through Assyria and Eg4.. The Nile was fill of fish, and tai explaIns the horrors of the plague that slinughtered the flnny tri)e all up ,.nd dovn that river, which hase been e.nd is now the main artery of Egypt's life, In Job you hear the plunge of the spear Into the hippopota. mus as the great dramatic poet cries out, IsCanst thou fill his skin wit.h barbed irons or his head with fish spears?" Yea, the fIsh began to swim in the very first book of Genesis, where my text records, "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life." D you realize that the first living thing that God created wqs the 8ish)? It preceded the bird, the quadruped, the hu nan race. Tile lish has priority of residence over every living thing. The next thing done after God dad kindled for our world the golden chandelier of I the sun and the silver chandelier of the moon was to make the lish. The first motion of the principle of lite, a princi ple that all the thousands of years since i have not been able to define or ana lyze, the very first stir of life, was in a fish. i What an hour that was when in the I Euphrates, the Gihon, the Pison and the I Hiddekel, the four rivers of paradise, I the waters swirled with fins and bright 3ned with scales! All the attributes of thle infinite God were called into action tor the making of that li st lish. Lan eolate and translucent miracle! There I s enough wonder i'i the plate of a stur ,con oe in the cartilage of a shark V) -oufoun. the scientists. It does not akc the universe to prove a God. A ish does it. No wonder that Linnaus and Cuvier md Agassiz and the greatest minds of il the centuries sat enratured before I ts anatomy. Oh, its beauty ani the I idaptedness of its structure to the ele. nont in which it must live; the picture I ,allery on the sides of the mountain Lrout unveiled as they spling up to match the flies: the grayling, called the Ilower of fishes; the salmon, ascending the Oregon and the Severn, easily leap. ng the falls that would stop them; the bold perch, the vadgeon. silver and black spoted; the herring, moving In iquadrons live miles long; the carp, for -unning called the fox of fi:hes; the 6voudrous sturgeons, formerly reserved I or the tables of' royal famiies and the 4 singlass made out of their menibrane; Lhe tencli, called the p.aysician of ishes. because when applie(l to human ail 1ents it is sai( to he curative: the lam preys, so teipting to the epicurean that Loo many of them slew IIenry 1I--aye, Lhe whole world of fisles! Enough of them floating up and down Lhe rivers to teed the hemispheres if cv ,ry ear of corn and every hicad of Wheat I Emd every herd of1 quadruped and if eve ry other article of tood in all the earth were destroyed. Universal drouht, leaving not as much as a spear of grass on the round planet, would leave in the rivers and lakes and seas for the human race a staple commodity of Fool which, if brought to shore, would he enough not only to Veed but to fatten the eutire human i ace. In times t o come the world may be so populated that the har vests and vineyards ani laud anmaals may be insufficient to feed thie hiumian family, and the Oatiovs may be obliged to conie to the I ivers atol ocean heaches to seek the living harvu.ts that swiin the deep, and that would mean more health an(] vigor and brilliancy and brain than the human race now own. The Lord by placing the fis'i in the first course of the menu in I)iradisv, making it precede bird a,id beast, indi cated t.o the world the importanc of the fish as an article of human food. The reasoii that, men andl women lived three and four and live and nine hiun:lred yearsI was because they were kept on piarched coin and fish. WVe mix up a fantast,ic foodf thiat kills the most of us before 301 years of ag!e. Custards and wipped sillabubs and I roman nuniches and chick en salads at midnight are a gaiitlet that,I few have strenigth to run. We put on many a tonibstone glow img ep ithets sayinug that the p'erson be i neathi :lied of p)atriotic services or fromi exhaustion in religions work, whe li nothing killed the poor fellow buct lob ster eat,en at, a party four hours allter lie ought to have beeni sound asleep in bed. There are men today in our streets soI) many walking hospitals who might have been athletes if they had takeni the hin t of Genesis in my text anid of our I aord's remark and adhleredf to siniplicity of dIi- ~ et. Thle reason that the country districts have furnished most of thie men and wo meni of our t:me who are dotiing the muightiest wvork in imeirchandiise-, in me channic;s. in law, in medicine, in theology, ini legislative and1( congressioniai hal ls, anti all the picaidents fronm Washingtonii dlowni--at least, those wvh o have amount-. ed to anything-ms hecause they were inI those country districtse of necessity kept on phuin thiet. No man or woman evert ammounted to) anything who was biroughit uiponi Ib atinig island and angel cake. Thle world must turni back to p)aradlisaic thmet if If isto get paradisiaic morals and par adtisiaic health. 'The human r.ace today needs imoie pliosphioronnull adie fish is chiiriged and( suiichiargedl with phosph4-| rous-pliosphxorous, that which shiines in the dark without, buningm. What made the twelve apostles such stat,wart, men that, they could endure anything and achieve ucycrythiing Next to divine inspiration, it nas because they were nearly all fishermen and lived on fish and1( a few lai 1 condiments. Paul, though not brought up to swing the net and t,hrow the line, must of nc cessit,y have adloptedl the dhiet, of the population among whiom he l ived. and you see t.he phosphorous ini his darilig plea becfore Felix, amid the phosphorous in his boldness of all utterances before the wiseacres on Mars hl!, and the phlosphorouis as lie went without fright to hisx behieadhing, and thme phiosphioroums you see in the lives of all tbe apostles who moved right on und(aunted1 to cer tain imartyrdlom, whether to be dlcal)i tated or flung oIl' precipices or hiunig in ci ucifixion. Phosphorous shiniig in the (lark without burning. No man or woman that ever lived was independent of (luiestions of' diet,. Let, those who by circumstanmces are compelled to simplicity of diet thank God for their rescue from the temp' .t,ion of killing doelicacies. The men and wo men who are to dlecide the drift, of the 20t,h century, which is only seven or eight st,eps oIl, are nowv five miles back from the rail station and had for break fast this morning a similar bill of fare to that which Christ providled for the fishiermen disciples on the banks of Lake Galilee. indeed the only article of 100(d that Christ by miarcle mnltlplied were bread1 and fiEh which the boy who acte(d as sutler to the 7,000 people of the wilder dlerness handed over- five barley loaves and two fIshes. The boy must, have felt badly when ca''ed on to-give up the two fishes which i'e had brought out after having caught them himself, sit tint with his bare feet over the bank of the lake and expecting to sell his su pply a&t good profit, but lie felt better when by the miracle the fish were multiplied and he had more returned to uui m.a h Lie had surrended. Know also in order to underst.and the i p fixion the heaven of the grand old gos pel.Y es, not only must you dig for - aft, use only fresh bait. You cannot do anything down at the pond with old angleworms. New viewis of truth. New views of God. New views of the soul. There are all the good books to help you dig. But make up your mind as to wheth er you will take the hint of H1abukkuk and Isaiah and Job and use hook and lime, or take the hint of Matthew and Like and Christ aid fish with a net. I think many lose their time by wanting to fish with a net and they never get a place to swing the net. In other words they want to do gospel work on a big scale, or they will not do it at all. I see feeble minded Christian men going around with a Bagster'd Bible under their arm, hoping to do the work of an evangelist and use tWe net, while they might be better contert with hook and line and take one soul at a time. They are bad failures as evangelists; they would be mighty successive as private Christians. If you catch only one soul for God that will be enough to fill your eternity with celebration. All hail the fisherman with hook and line! I have seen a man in roughest cor duroy outfit come back from the woods loaded down with a string of finny treasurs hung over his shoulder, and his gamebp_g filled, and a (log with his 3 teeth carrying a basket flilled with the surplus of an afternoon's angling, and it was all the result of a hook and line. And in the eternal world there will be many a man and many a woman that was never heard of outside of a village Sunday school or a prayer meeting buried in a church basement who will - come before the throne of God with a multitude of souls raisomed throug h I his or her instrumentalit, and yet the work all (lone through personal inter view, one by one, one by one. You do not know who that one soul i may be. Staupitz helped onc soul into - the light, but it was Martin Luther. i Thomas Bilney brought salvation to one soul, but it was Hugh Latimer. An edge tool maker was the means of I saving one soul, but it was John Sum Snierfield. Our blessed Lord healed one L blind eye at a time, one paralyzed arm at a time, one Ocopsical patient at a i time, and raised from the dead one girl i at a time, one young man at a the. Admire the net that takes in a great many at once, but do not despise the hook and line. God helped us amid the gospel fish L eries whether we employ hook or netl for the day cometh when we shall see how much depended on our fidelity. Christ himself declared: "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore and sat down and gath ered the good in the vessel, but cast the bad away So shall it be at the end of the world-the angels shall come forth and separate the wicked from the just." Yes, the fisherman think it best to keep the useful and worthless of the haul in the same net until it is drawn upon the beach, and then the division takes place, and if it is on Long Island coast the mossbankers are thrown out and the bluelish and shad preserved, y or if it is on the store of Galilee the i fish classified as siluroids are hurled ,)ack into the water or thrown up on the bank as unclean, while the perch and the carp and the barbel are put in r to pails to be carried home for use. -So in the church on earth, the saints s and the hypocrites, the generous and Sthe mean, the chaste andl the unclean, .are Kcept in the same membership, but t at death the division will be made, and a the good will be gathered iunto heaveni and the bad, however many holy comi munions they may herve celebrated,ansd however nmany rhetorical prayers they may have offered, and however many years their names imay have been on the church rolls, will be8 cast away. God forbid that any of uIs shld( be among the "cast away !" Biut may we (1o our work, whether small or great, as thoroughly as did that renowned fish erman, George WV. Jiethune, who spent his summer rest angling in the waters around the Thousand Isles and beating at their own craft those who plied it all the year, and who the rest of the time gloriously preachedi Christ in a pulpit only 15 minutes from wvhero I now stand, and ordering for his ownm obsequies: "Put on me my pulpit gown and bands, with my own pocket Bible in my right hand. ilury mec with my mother, my father and my grand mother. Sing also my own hmymnm: "'Jesus, thou p)rinice of lire! 'Thy chosen cannot (lie, lAike the~e, they contiuer in the st rife, -Tio reIgn with theeo on high. Crushedt and Cromnatedi. S'r. Lo)uis, Feb. 8.- Vlhe Big l our p)asseng~er train No 12, which left, here at, 7:50 o'clock last nIght, in chmarg~e of Conductor Fit,zgerald, was wr<cked by a broken rail one mile east, of 'ain, Ill . 11:10 last night. ilaggemaster Charles itesseller of in dianapolls was killed. TIhirt.y-one p)as sengers were injuredl. The train conisis. ted1 of of eight coaches, includIng thme baggage and mail car. The accidenti Soccuredl on a small trestle which crosses a creek. TIhe egular passenger train Spassed over in safety. .The ent,ire traini lefta the rails and I caugzht lire. The mail car, which wais t next, to the engine, was the first, to ig I nite, and as it was burning split comn 5 pletely in twain. The express car and y' the two following (lay coaches were a thro .vn from tIhe trestle, a distance of at B least, thirty feet. Th'fe rest of thme cars were saved by the embankment on the opposite sidie of the ditch, otherwise the (death roll would have been horri'>1e. Tihe passengers in the (lay coaches were rescued with great tlicuilt,v by the tramnmen and uniinjured passengers. .Baggage master Resselier was p)inined .bet,ween thue mass of trunks, and was > burned to death in sight, of the tramnmen -and passengers, who were unable to .rescue him. 3 Mrs. Laughlin, of Cleveland, was Itravelling wit.h tIhe body of her dleadl a husband and pour small chIldren. She and all the chddren were burned, bruised andI cut abop~t their faces amnd hands. The corpse of her husband was crenma ted before her eyes. The members of the fatmily were taking thme body home for burial. Laughl:n was hurt ia a rail road wreck at Leavensworth; Kan., about two weeks ago, and dlied at Kan sas City in the railroad hospital. THE Port Royal and Western Caro lina Railroad paid up their taxes amounting to $8,000 last; Friday, andl its rolling stock which had been seized by thme Sheriff of Laurens County, was re Sleased. This is the same road that tried to bluff off the State authorities by go ing into the United States Court for an order restraining Sheriff Nance from levying on its stock, but it seems that the little game did not work so well. Sufrocated. NEW YORK, February 3.-A family, consisting of Morris Cohena, his wife, Sophia, and baby, Esther, were sufio. ,cated by fire at their home, 137 Orchard street, early this morning. Three other p ersons were adlym injuned Ichthyology of the Bible that in the dee or waters, as those of the Mediterrenga there were inonsters that are now ex mnot. The fools who become infidel because they cannot understand thi mgulfiment of the recreant Jon%h In i rca monster miglit have saved theii ouls by studying a little natural history 'Oh'' sa vs some one "that story of Jo. )ah was only a fable.'' Say others "I vas interpolated b; some writee of latei iies.'' Others say, "It was a repro luction of the story of Hercules devoret mnd then restored from the monster.' it my reply is that history tells us hat there were monster3 large enough Swhchu to ships. The extinct ihlhyosaurus of other k!,cs was 30 feet, loig, and as late at .he sixth century of the Christian era ip and down the Mediterenean there loatd monsters compared with whict 1 modern whale was a sardine or a her 'in. The shark has main and again Weln louid to have swallowed a mat -ntire. A fisheriniin on the coast o L'urkey Found a sea monster which con aimed a wonon and a purse of gold. I have seen in inuseums sea monster. arge enougih to take down a prophet 3ut I have a better reason for believinf ,l'e Old Testainent account, and that ij hat Christ said it was true and a typ4 >f his owi realirrection, and I suppos4 le otight t0 know. In Matthew xii, 4 lesius Christ, says, "For as Jonas wa. ,hice Oays and three nights in th4 vhlve's belly. so shall the Son of Mat )e three days and three nights in thi lear, of tile earth." And that settles il or mie ar-d for any man who does no! wlieve Christ a dupe and an imposter. Notice also how the Old Testameni vriters draw similitude fi-om the fishe 'es. Jeremiah itses such imagery t< roplhesy destruction, "Behold, I wil end for many fishers, saith the Lord td they shall fish them." Ezeklel use. ish imagery to prophesy prosperity, "I hall come to pass that the fishers shal tand upon it froin En-gedi even to En glaim; they shall be a place to cast fortl lets; their fil shall be aceording t< heir kinds, as the lish of the great sea !xceeding many," the explanation oj hitch is that Ei-gedi and En-eglain lood on the banks of the Dead sea, ir he waters of which no fish can live, bul he prophet says that the time will comi viien these waters will be regenerate( ind they will be great places for fish. Amoi reproves idolatries by saying 'The day sball come upon you when hi vill take you away with hooks and you )osterity with fishhooks." Solomon i: ''clesiast es, declares that those captur i of temptation are as fishes taken iU mn evil net. Iudeed Solomon knew all hout the tinny tribe and wrote a treat. se on ichthyology which has been lost Furthermore, in order that you may inderstand the ichithylogy of the Biblc ,ou must kinow that there were fivt vays of fishing. One was by a fence of 'Ceds and caies, within which the fis1 vere caught. lut the llerodic govern. kint forbade that on Lake Galilee, leal 'easure boats be wrecked by the stake; Iriven. Another mode was by spear, ng-the waterr, of Galilee so clear, goo( tim cid be taken for the transLixing Mnother was by hook and line, a where lsaiah sttys, "The fishers als( ihall nourn, and they that cast angl Imto the brook shall lament. And ,Jol iays, "Canst I hou iraw out leviathat with a hook ?" And Hlabakkuk says "liy take ip all of then with the an gle." Anothrr mode was by casting net a that which was lung from the shore ani other, by a dragnet or that which wai thrown fronm a boat and drawn througl t he sea as the tishing smack sailed or llow wonderfnl alt this is inwrough nmto Ithe lii ole imagery, and it leads mi )ask in which mode aire you and I fish ntg, for ti'e churc'h is the boat, and the o(speil is the net, and the sea is thi sorldl, and( the fish are the souls. anc ;od addresLes us as lie (lid Si mon a ua \drew,- sayimig, "I ollow tie, and(l vill tuikw y'ou fishes of men." flut vbien is the best, time to fish fog sonis it the night. I 'et.'r, why did you sty te 'birist , "'We h:it,e toiled all the night rid have taken niothinig " Why did am noet fish ini the daytime? lie re ilies, " You ought to know that thi ight is ft' test Li me for tishing." At Tiobyht'ina Mills, among the nouintaits of l'ennlytvania, I saw a riendl with high boots and1( fishing tackle t art ognm omit at ii o'clhock at nigh ., and I aid, "Whtier e arme vou going'?" lie an werecd, "( in ig to tili.'' "'What in the ight ?" lie answered, "Yes, in the light ." Si) the vast majority of souls aptur edl lorn ( lod are taken ini times of eyivaii in the ntight meetings. T1hey ligh t .luist ats we'(ll come at 12 o'clock at iloon, buot most, of thein will tnot. Ask lhe 'vanugelists of olden times ask Fin CVy, ask NettleLon, ask O)sborn, ask )amiel Ilaiker, and then ask all the oodlernu 'vainelistsa which Is the best m'e to gal ther souls, and they will an. wer', '"The nigiht; by all (idds, the lit." Not only the natural night but heo i night of' trouble. Slupptose I go around( in this auidienci ind( ask these Chiristians when the' ver'e converted to God, One would an wo'r, "i t was at t lie time I lost m3i hihd by muembr'anousn (roup, and it waL he might of hereavenment," or the an wer'i would bie, "It wats jus5t aftter I wia avindoled out of toy proplerty, and1( 1 wvas the night of bankruptcy," or I wvouild be, "It was dlurintg that tim when I was downt with that aw ful sick rwss, and ft was tihe night of' physica sat bering," or it wouild be, "It was tha tiame wh tn sz.ander took af ter me, and was maitlignued andi abuitsed, and it wa thie niight of' per'secuition ." Ahi, mi buearers, that Is the time for you to g if ter souls, whe.n a night of trouble i 11n them1. %liss nto, that opportunit to save a soulh, for it is time best of a] )ppbortunt i('s. Gotup along t he Mohawk, or the Jiun latat, or It' l'elaiware, or' the Tlomble be', oir te t. Lawrentce right after r'aini, aund youi will Iinmd the fishermna ,! tip aunt down the banks. Whly ? Je ~aise n, good time to angle Is right af ter the rain, and that is a goodl t,ime t< ~achi souls, right after a shower of mis rortuneii, right after floods of disaster A~nd as a pool) ove 'shadlowed with treel s a grand place for makIng a fine hau >f fish, so when the soul is under the ong dark shadows oft anxiety and dis ress 1s a good time~ to make a nyiritua taul. I'eople in the bright sunshine o: lrosperity are not so easily taken. fluit besure before you start out t< ~he gospel fisheries to get the rfgh Cind oIf 1; .mt. -'But how," you say, "an I to get It?" My answer is, "DI)g foi t. "Where shall I (ig for it?" "ii lie richt Bible ground(s." We boys coiughit lip in the country had to dfj 'o:' bait before y, e sta"ted for the banki >f the R aritan. We p i, the sharp edge >f the spade augainst thme grounid ani hen put our foot on the spade, r vith one tremendous plutnge of om trength of body and will we drove Il n uip to the handle and then tutrne( >ver the sod. We had never read Walton's "Corn >lete Angler" or Charles Cotton's "In mtrutci onls How to Angle For GIrayling [n a Clear Streatm." We knew nothing rbouit the modern red hackle, or the 11: >f orango colored mnohuair, but we gol he right kind of bait. No use tryfng o angle fo: lish or angle for souls un, ess 1'ou have the rIght kind of bait md there is lenIty of it in the promises he parables. the miracles the cnuni NOT A "BIG BLUNDER." Wha Dr. Talm*se Tktnke of .he Mveey ou-e-Plaitn Face. The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, who lectured in Columbia on "Big Blun ders," has joined the vast army of Kee ley cure enthusiasts. While on his re cent visit to Chicago he was taken by Dr. Leslie Keeley to his gold cure es tablishinent at Dwight, Ill., which is the parent institution of the fifty branches that are scattered throughout this country, Europe and Australia. Dr. Talmage had faith in the gold before he went there, now he is as loud in its praises as the most enthusiastic of the sixty thousand people whom he says have been rescued from the thral dom of alcohol, opium and tobacco by its influence. In speaking of his visit to )wight, he said: "1 am firmly convinced from what I saw and heard at Dwight that Dr. KCee ley is one of the greatest benefactors to mankind that ever lived, Ili insti tution is a wonderful place, his cure at marvelous one. Dr. Keeloy's finger is on the world, atid I shall do all in my power to tell the world so. I shall have him in Brooklyn before long, and will guarantee him an audience of 7.(X)O people. I am satisfied now, for I have seen Keeley, )wight and the gold cure. Dr. Talmage's face was red with en thusiasin as he spoke. When asked if l'e had seen the operation of adminis tering the cure he said: "Yes, I was in the 'shot tower,' as they call it; there I saw one ot the most wonderful sights in my exprrience. I saw live hundred men standing in line, with slits in their siceves, waiting their turns to have the gold cute injected or 'shot' into their arms. The expression on the faces of these men was enough to show the good work Dr. Keeley is doing. The poor, broken-cown wrecks who had just come in awaited their turns with a look of hopeful expectan cy on their faces that was touching, while, on the other hand, those wt o had been there for some time, and had al ready experienced the good effects of this cure, looked proudly conscious that they were being freed front sly ery. I tell you the conlident way in which these n,en spoke and the happy, triumphant expressions on their faces would have converted the greatest ene mies of the cure." "Did you come across any persons who were sceptical regarding thecure?" "At Dwight, not one. Elsewhere, I have met hundreds of them; out the best answer to the objections they make that the cure is only a temporary one is the 12,1'0 people who have been cured there and at the various branch es and who have remained cured for six and seven years. Why, IJ> per cent of the cures are permanent. What better results coulid be looked for?" One of these braiches of which Dr. Talmage speaks is located at Columbia. It is visited by tL.e very best class of men in the State, and the small army that has been cured at the Colutbia lt'eley Institute can and will heartily endorse the verdict of Dr. Talmage. Fateful Floodes. SYIN:Y, N. S. W., Feb. 6. --The number of peol)( dr.)wned in the 11)ods in QueCitsland is very large. At lpsc wich, twenty-live miles ISoi Briibine, tweuty two are known to have I)risl':,d, and it is feared that the loss of life Is much greater, as the swollen river le covered with wvreckage from which a htorrible steuch arises, doubtless caused by iead boudies of htuman beings and aini nais entiIgled in the mass. At Brisbante theo water is twent.y feet in thme lower portions of' the townt, and thte ihabitanits are crowding to the htightest ptarts of' the city. At Mary borough, in March county, thtirty persons were dIrownted. Most of' the town is unider Wat2r. The Mary lLiver bridge. thte largest im t,be c)oony, htas been carried away. Theli town has been de~sertLed b)y two-thi!rds of its inhlab)itant.s. Tiaro, aniothier town on the Mary, is also under 'vater. TaIks Th.rough lIII Hlat. SA laum, Or'e., Feb. 1.-Governtor Pen nioyer received a lett.er yesterday from his Ad jutanit General asking permission to use t,wo b)rass cannon bolongIng to t,he State for the purpose oh firing a sa lute on inauguratlion dhay. The (Gover nor sent tIhe following reply: "No per miissiont will be given to use State can nton in firinig a salute over the inausgura tioni of a WVall street pitntmerat, as P'remii denit of the United States. .I'r' is expected that the crowd at the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland as P'res ident will be t,wice as large as that t anty previouts itauguration. Th'le ar rangemuents inakling for the p)rocession anid inauguration ball are in such shape t,hat the event p)romists to be one of t lhe most imposing that has ever t,aken place at the National capital. Ne-w Yoitic, Feeb. 5.-Mrs. W. C. Whitney. wife of lon. W. C. Whitney, Ex-Secretary of t,he navy, dlied at her residencee in thils city last, night. laa,,, aui(m Organs. 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